今日の英語ニュース☆2023.09.01☆時事英語・ニュース英語を極める
このnoteの目的は、アメリカのニュース番組が理解出来るようになる方法を伝えることです。その方法とは、英語字幕を読みながら英語ニュースを毎日見続けること。 こんな感じです(サンプルのスクリーンショット)。
使う教材は、上のリンクの動画です。
アメリカの公共放送PBSのニュース番組で、質の高い報道に定評がありますが、残念なことに、字幕に誤りがかなり含まれていることがあります。番組がアメリカで放送されてから約2時間で最終版の字幕がアップロードされますので、時間的制約を考えれば誤りは仕方がないことかもしれません。
しかし、英語学習者の場合、字幕に誤りがあると、変だと思っても、それが本当に間違いなのか分からないことがあると思います。あるいは、間違いに気付かないこともあるかもしれません。ですから、正確な字幕が必要です。
そこで、約1時間の番組ですが、英語音声をすべて聞いて、字幕の明らかな誤りを訂正したものをダウンロードできるようにしています(少し下にあります)。この字幕ファイルと動画をダウンロードして再生ソフトで使ってください(上のスクリーンショット動画のように再生できます。英語が速すぎる場合は、あまりおすすめしませんが、再生速度の調節もできます)。
また、このnoteや字幕ファイルでは、辞書を調べても分からないような英語表現を説明しています(辞書を引けば分かる言葉は、自分で調べてください)。辞書に載ってないような表現、辞書にあっても意味がたくさんありすぎてどれなのか分からない言葉、文脈の中で特殊な使われ方をしている言葉、背景の知識がないと分からない部分、ニュース英語や時事英語の独特な表現、知っていると訳に立ちそうな表現などを説明しています(書き加えた説明は[* ……] )。
それでは、今日も一緒に英語のニュースを見ていきましょう!
■ 英語字幕ファイルのダウンロード
[PBS NewsHour Aug. 31, 2023] の字幕ファイルのダウンロード
(この字幕ファイルはテキストエディタ(windowsの「メモ帳」など)で開くことも出来ますが、下の「字幕ファイルの使い方」のように再生ソフト(無料)で使うことをおすすめします。こんな感じに表示されます。)ブラウザーによってダウンロードがブロックされる場合ば、下のテキストファイルをダウンロードして拡張子.txtを .lrcに変更して使ってください(例えば、Chromeは、.lrcのようなあまり使われない拡張子のファイルを危険と判断することがあるようです)。
■ 動画サイトへのリンク
・直接動画サイトを見る場合のリンクです(リンク先字幕の誤りは元のまま)
・分からない言葉はこの2つの辞書でたいてい見つかると思います
・上の字幕ファイルには、約1時間の番組の全字幕と語句説明があります
・以下はサンプル程度です
[00:00] Introduction
[02:34] Residents in Florida's Big Bend region begin recovery after Hurricane Idalia
[07:41] WILLIAM BRANGHAM: That sentiment from Ms. Gross that she has had it with Florida is not unanimous. I mean, we have talked with a lot of people here who said, despite what they have been through, they want to rebuild and they want to stay.
[** have had it = to have endured all that one can. もううんざり]
[10:36] News Wrap
[10:36] GEOFF BENNETT: In the day's other headlines: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell got the green light to continue working. The Kentucky Republican froze up during a news conference Wednesday for the second time in two months. He suffered a concussion back in March. Today, the attending physician of Congress cleared the senator.
[** < Attending Physician of the United States Congress = The Attending Physician of the United States Congress is the physician responsible for the medical welfare of the members of the United States Congress and the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attending_Physician_of_the_United_States_Congress ]
[11:42] Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has confirmed taking three trips last year on a Republican donor's private plane. The donor, Harlan Crow, also owns the Georgia house where Thomas' mother lives, and he paid private school tuition for a child raised by the justice.
[** 関連ニュース ]
[12:03] In South Africa, a fire in Johannesburg killed at least 74 people early today and injured more than 50. Officials say the inferno consumed a rundown apartment building that was occupied primarily by squatters and other recently unhoused people. When the flames were extinguished, only a burned-out shell remained, and responders laid out dozens of bodies on the pavement. The city manager pledged action on the longstanding problem of derelict buildings.
[** city manager = (government) A municipal official responsible for the operations of a city, usually appointed by a town or city council rather than elected (wiktionary) ]
[13:31] In Missouri, a judge ordered that the 84-year-old white man who shot a Black teenager after he mistakenly went to the man's house must stand trial. Ralph Yarl had gone to the wrong home to pick up his younger brothers. Andrew Lester shot the 16-year-old twice, the first time in his head and again when he was on the ground. Yarl is still recovering from a brain injury, but has started his senior year in high school.
[** 関連ニュース ]
[15:06] Trump pleads not guilty in Georgia case, judge rules trial will be televised
[15:44] There are 19 defendants and many of them have entered what's known as an arraignment waiver, which means they have entered their pleas of not guilty ahead of time. And they don't have to show up for this quick 15-minute scheduled hearing next Wednesday.
[** arraignment waiverとは何かを説明している部分 ]
[16:20] And this comes as the judge also ruled, Geoff, that there will be cameras in the courtroom. The judge will have a YouTube channel to stream all of the court hearings related to this. So we will be able to watch things in real time.
[** 2020年の大統領選の選挙結果をトランプが覆そうとした件についてのジョージア州の刑事裁判で、担当判事が裁判をYouTubeでライブ配信することを決めた、というニュース]
[18:10] We're also waiting for the judge in this case to rule on Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff, his request to have this case moved from state court to federal court. [** 関連ニュース ]
[18:52]★今日のおすすめ★ Can the 14th Amendment be used to block Trump from 2024 ballots?
[19:08] LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: It comes down to the 14th Amendment, a Civil War era clause in the Constitution that disqualifies candidates who have engaged in insurrection or rebellion or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. A belief that Trump violated that standard with his actions on and before January 6 is gaining traction among his opponents on the campaign trail and in Congress. [** 合衆国憲法修正第14条のこの部分が、トランプには大統領選出馬資格がないとする根拠で、このニュースの核心部分。今後、この件は連邦最高裁で争われることが予想される。]
[19:41] JAMIE RASKIN (D-MD): I agree with the conservative Federalist Society law professors who are out there saying, as well as Mr. Hutchinson, that Donald Trump is disqualified, just as if he were running and not a born U.S. citizen or if he were running and he were 24 years old.
[** The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies (FedSoc) is an American conservative and libertarian legal organization that advocates for a textualist and originalist interpretation of the U.S. Constitution... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Society ]
[25:28] U.S. Commerce Secretary discusses trip to China amid military and economic tensions
[30:23] When I was in Shanghai, I had the opportunity to visit the Disney park. And, frankly, there's benefit to Chinese kids being exposed to U.S. brands and U.S. culture and U.S. brand names. There's a certain soft power benefit of that, a certain exchange of culture and people-to-people exchange.
[** soft power = (politics) Political influence that is extended by means of diplomacy, media, international assistance, cultural exchanges, etc., rather than by such "hard" means as military intervention or punitive economic measures (wiktionary)]
[31:40] I think that, the more transparent we can be about our policy and our rules and regulations, first of all, we have more credibility. Nobody can say that it's done in secret or unfair or not clear, I think. So we want to lean into the transparency.
[** to lean into = to embrace ]
[33:56]★今日のおすすめ★ How the rise of anti-LGBTQ+ hate and violence is impacting the community
[34:16] And, last month, the murder of 28-year-old dancer O'Shea Sibley. Sibley, who was gay, was fatally stabbed during a confrontation at a gas station in Brooklyn, New York. Police say Sibley confronted a group of people who made homophobic slurs and racist remarks while he and his friends were dancing and voguing
[** = Vogue, or voguing, is a highly stylized, modern house dance originating in the late 1980s that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene of the 1960s. It gained mainstream exposure when it was featured in Madonna's song and video "Vogue" (1990)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogue_(dance) ] .
[34:46] GEOFF BENNETT: We are living in a moment where accepting of LGBTQ people has never been greater. Looking at GLAAD's latest survey, nine out of 10 heterosexual Americans, 91 percent, think that LGBTQ people should live without facing discrimination; 84 percent support equal rights for the LGBTQ community. And yet GLAAD documented a more-than-300 percent increase in anti-LGBTQ incidents during this past Pride Month over last year.
[** Pride Month = 以前の番組に出てきました ]
[38:06] There's nine active now bills of don't say gay across America. It's not just Florida. And it's not just Texas.
[** "Don't Say Gay" law = Florida Parental Rights in Education Act = The Parental Rights in Education Act (HB 1557), commonly referred to as the "Don't Say Gay" law, is a Florida state law passed in 2022 that regulates public schools in Florida. The law is most notable for its controversial sections which prohibit public schools from having "classroom discussion" or giving "classroom instruction" about sexual orientation or gender identity from kindergarten through third grade ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Parental_Rights_in_Education_Act ]
[40:34]★今日のおすすめ★ Japan's problems developing stable energy sources 12 years after nuclear meltdown
[43:17] MILES O'BRIEN: Before the meltdowns, Japan generated about 30 percent of its electricity with 54 nuclear reactors. The entire fleet was shut down in the immediate aftermath. KEN KOYAMA, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan: We lost that very important contribution of a reliable so-called baseload power supply.
MILES O'BRIEN: Baseload, meaning energy that is online all the time.
[** Ken Koyamaは「電力供給網における一日の需要の最低水準」( https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ベースロード発電所 )の意味でbaseloadを使っていると思うので、Miles O'Brienの説明とは少し違うかもしれない。 ]
[48:30] U.S. health officials recommend moving marijuana to lower-risk drug classification
[53:23] NATALIE FERTIG: Well, the industry [* = cannabis industry ] is very excited because of the tax code change that I mentioned earlier. Drug advocates have been less excited, because what this reschedule would not -- would not impact is the criminal code. It would not mean any major changes to federal criminality of cannabis. So they're saying, hey, Biden administration, during the 2020 election, you said no one should be in jail for cannabis. This would not make a major difference to that. The anti-drug groups then are also not stoked. They're saying, this is making people see cannabis as less harmful or as less potentially abusive, as they, the anti-drug groups, claim it to be.
[** stoked = very excited or enthusiastic ]
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